FORT STEWART, Ga. — A futuristic whirr from the skies cut through the quiet of an unusually cool Georgia afternoon.In stationary concentration, a soldier moved only his fingers as he steered a small device through plastic pipes arranged into a makeshift obstacle course built to qualify soldiers on a tool that has quickly changed the course of modern warfare: drones. Unmanned aircraft shape nearly every part of the battlefields today, from reconnaissance and artillery spotting to precision strikes and surveillance.As the U.S. Army moves to integrate drones into each formation, units across the force are figuring out how to teach, train and test soldiers on rapidly evolving technology.At Fort Stewart, that effort has morphed into a homegrown schoolhouse that is designed to push drone operators beyond their comfort zone and into a stressful state of sweaty palms and elevated heart rates. The Marne Unmanned Center of Excellence, which became operational in March, moves soldiers through academic instruction, virtual simulators and increasingly challenging flight tests. The classroomThe center starts with classroom instruction on airspace rules and flight controls. Before soldiers can send a drone into the air, they spend time at a desk, fiddling with controllers hooked up to laptops. For…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The family of a missing Arizona State student is pleading for help after he vanished during a Grand Canyon trip just days before graduation.Sandarsh Krishna, 26, was last heard from on April 27, when he told relatives he was traveling to Las Vegas with a stop at the South Rim. He was expected back in time for final exams and a job interview, but never returned.”We haven’t had any success in finding him,” his sister-in-law, Pooja Shivananjappa, told Fox 10 Phoenix.According to the National Park Service, Krishna’s last known location was along the Rim Trail off Hermit Road, between Bright Angel Lodge and Mohave Point, sometime between 4 p.m. on April 27 and 12 a.m. on April 28.FAMILY ON LAS VEGAS, GRAND CANYON VACATION VANISHED ON ROAD TRIP, AUTHORITIES SAY Investigators say Krishna, who had no known vehicle, may have been using a rideshare or taxi service. His cell phone data has not moved since the day he disappeared, according to his family.”They’re doing the best they can, but unfortunately we do not have the exact location to see where he went missing,” Shivananjappa told the outlet.GOT A TIP? Search efforts have…

The U.S. military launched strikes at Iranian military facilities Thursday after Iran launched missiles, drones and small boats at three U.S. Navy vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz toward the Gulf of Oman, according to U.S. Central Command.The U.S. fired at Iranian missile- and drone-launch sites, command-and-control locations, and intelligence and surveillance hubs after “unprovoked” Iranian attacks against Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Truxtun, USS Rafael Peralta and USS Mason.“CENTCOM does not seek escalation but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces,” CENTCOM said.No U.S. vessels were struck as a result of the attacks.RELATEDDespite the uptick in military activity, President Donald Trump told ABC News on Thursday that U.S. strikes against Iranian targets were just a “love tap” and that the ceasefire was still in effect.On Monday, the U.S. destroyed six Iranian small boats, as well as cruise missiles and drones, that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched against ships the U.S. was escorting through the strait as part of Project Freedom, which has since been paused.On Wednesday, Trump said the war would “be over quickly” at an event for Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Burt Jones.The U.S. and Iran are reportedly deliberating over a peace memorandum that would end the…

This article was originally published by William L. Anderson at the Mises Institute.  (This is based upon a talk I gave at a recent Mises Circle meeting in San Diego.) I have lived in California for more than four years, having married a lifelong California girl a while back, having come here after retiring from being a college economics professor in Western Maryland at the end of 2021. Presently, we live in Roseville, a city of nearly 150,000 that has been called one of the country’s most livable cities. In many ways, California has been a paradise. The weather is more comfortable for me than any other place where I have lived before. My car windshield isn’t plastered with bugs in warm weather the way it was when I was back East. We can pick fresh oranges and other citrus fruits from our trees, and we have what is by far the nicest house I have had in my life. Last summer, I took my grandson to San Francisco, saw a Major League Baseball game in Sacramento, then took him north on a road trip to see Mt. Shasta and the famous redwood trees on the coast. Scenery like that…

When I was a kid, my mom always bought us the super healthy and nutritious whole grain wheat bread… and I hated it. I was one of those kids who always wanted plain white bread. And thirty years later, I still feel the same. Although I’ve developed a taste for wheat bread, I always go with white bread if I have a choice. Over the years, I’ve experimented with several recipes, and my current favorite is this Amish white bread recipe which I found on the Youtube channel, Pratt Family Homestead. There are only a few simple ingredients. Want to save this post for later? Click Here to Pin It On Pinterest! Here are the ingredients: ⅔ cup of sugar 2 cups of warm water 1 ½ tablespoons of yeast ¼ cup of oil 2 teaspoons of salt 5 to 6 cups of all-purpose flour Now if you’re already a pro at making bread from scratch, this list of ingredients is probably all you need to get started. But if you’re new to this, here are some step by step instructions: Thoroughly mix the sugar and water in a large bowl. Now sprinkle the yeast onto it and wait 10…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It was the mid-1990s. And the world was online.No doomscrolling for hours through Instagram and X.But people were plowing through GeoCities. There were Hotbot searches – before the days of Google and AI. There was even Ask Jeeves, long before Grok. Congress was on the precipice of adopting a landmark telecommunications law which would dictate the digital landscape for decades.When signing the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law, former President Clinton declared how the measure would plow “a superhighway to serve both the private sector and the public interest.”RAND PAUL SAYS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH YOUTUBE AND GOOGLE CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT PLATFORM LIABILITYYup. Back then, some still referred to the internet as “The Information Superhighway.”The 1990s were heady. Full of optimism and possibility. The. U.S. won the Cold War. The economy boomed and was “new.” The internet linked the world.But there was a serious debate about free speech. Who should regulate what was online? Should the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) address what was proper to post, the same way it oversaw the TV and radio airwaves?In the early ‘90s, the National Security Agency (NSA) used a cryptographic backdoor to intercept phone calls…

Four decades after Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell first felt the need for speed in the cockpit of an F-14 Tomcat, new legislation is keeping hope alive that the iconic swept-wing fighter could someday fly again.In late April, the U.S. Senate, led by sponsor Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., unanimously approved the “Maverick Act,” introduced by freshman U.S. Rep. Abraham Hamadeh, an Illinois Republican and Army Reserve officer. The bill, which has yet to become law, authorizes the secretary of the Navy to hand over the service’s three remaining F-14D Tomcats to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Commission in Huntsville, Alabama.It allows the commission to put the aircraft on display, but also permits them to be operated in “an airshow … or a commemorative event to preserve United States naval aviation heritage.”In other words, U.S. F-14s could take to the sky once more.This is all significant because of the aircraft’s complex and high-stakes national security history. When the Grumman-made aircraft was retired in 2006 after 32 years of service, Congress acted quickly to mitigate the threat of foreign theft or security breach, specifically from Iran, which has operated variants of the Tomcat since 1979 and is the only remaining country…

When college football first moved to a playoff format, there were just four teams included. That limited field created an endless series of arguments as to the criteria and selection process for the selected teams. Almost immediately, discussions started to expand the field to include more teams and, the theory went, end more of those arguments, make the tournament more exciting, and of course, increase television revenue. The 12-team field has, for the most part, achieved those goals. There are on-campus playoff games, generally creating a compelling, exciting atmosphere with a high-stakes, winner-take-all matchup in front of home fans. There are weeks’ worth of games to watch and follow, sometimes pitting conference rivals against each other, or allowing for direct comparisons of top teams in different conferences. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!Still, with all the positives, the arguments around the selection process have not changed. The 2025 field being a near-perfect example. The Alabama Crimson Tide were blown out in the SEC Championship Game, yet still made the playoff with three losses, ahead of a two-loss Notre Dame team that had won 10 games in a row. Two Group of Five teams made…

Students at Department of Defense Education Activity schools should start practicing their push-ups, pull-ups, planks, shuttle-run or one-mile run in preparation for the Presidential Fitness Test, which will soon be required at DoD schools. During a White House ceremony marking the return of the Presidential Fitness Test awards, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the test will be mandatory in the DoD’s 161 K-12 schools across 30 military installations. Recalling his childhood striving to earn the top award level, Hegseth said he hoped the requirement would serve as a “pilot for all of American education.” “I remember it because it was something my country clearly elevated as important. We should be in shape; we should compete,” Hegseth said. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last July reinstating the test in public schools. On Tuesday, Trump signed a proclamation that reestablished the awards for those who meet age-level standards for three out of six exercises in the test. “My administration is working very hard to defend Americas cherished athletic traditions and pass our values of excellence and competitiveness to the next generation,” Trump said during the signing. Hegseth did not say when the test requirement will go into effect; the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republicans in Pennsylvania are pressuring Democrats to act on a legislative crackdown targeting illegal immigrant truckers on America’s highways.Several foreign nationals involved in dangerous incidents around the country were found to be holding PennDOT CDLs, leading to tensions between Harrisburg and the Department of Homeland Security and calls from Republicans for state Democrats to address the issue, arguing such discrepancies do not appear to occur at the same level in other states.Democrats, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, previously alleged DHS failed to properly maintain its “alien verification” (SAVE) database, which PennDOT said it uses to verify an applicant’s “lawful presence,” while a top Republican recently demanded answers from PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll after illegal immigrants with CDLs were apprehended as far away as Oklahoma.On Wednesday, Shapiro’s camp did not dismiss Republican-led bills aimed at addressing the issue, including efforts to shut down so-called “CDL mills,” which allegedly produce unqualified truckers and generate significant profits. TransportationSecretary Sean Duffy said the Biden administration adjusted rules to allow trucking schools to self-certify, creating a dynamic he compared to the Minnesota-Somali social-services fraud scandal and called “total bull—” at a recent conference.LAWMAKERS WARNED PENNDOT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT-CDL…